Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor

Re:Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative r... by badestrand on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:53AM (#18230358)

I can imagine real-time collaboration is an immensely interesting problem to work on.

Also wonderful blog post, actually read it in full, thanks!

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative r... by scofalik on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:25PM (#18232386)

It truly is the most interesting subject I've been working on yet. The fascinating thing about it is that it isn't a "solved" issue with one, correct solution, so you can feel like a 19th-century scientist at times :).

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative r... by tabtab on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:21PM (#18231801)

If I were Google I'd buy up CKEditor to help compete with Microsoft Office.

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative r... by chx on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:12PM (#18235841)

I do not think they are interested. Google Docs/Sheets gets features at a very slow pace -- if Google wanted to compete with Office they could literally pour hundreds of millions and a legion of developers into it. As the only monetization I am aware of is Google Suite perhaps that's not enough to justify it. Unless you want to see ads in Docs / Sheets... also, Google Wave has been cancelled.

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative r... by tabtab on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:18PM (#18240553)

Re: Unless you want to see ads in Docs / Sheets

The more you use a product, the more you visit related sites and materials on the web; so yes, ads.

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative r... by stalq on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:09PM (#18232801)

Period!

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